Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Committee on Education · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 267
ition, has similar columns rising trom the floor, very tall andslender, with a screen of columns also at the other end of the room (figure 200). 241 AMERICAN DO M ESTIC ARCHITECTURE The vestibule ot the Woodlands (1788) is unique in having a unified columnartreatment throughout (figure 196). Its… … Fr.i 1/ photograph, copyright, tgiJ, hy Wi/hmn A. Se»ipie Figure 202. The saloon, Monticello. Thomas Jefferson, 1771 to 1809 The form of interior cornices varied much at any given time with the meansof the owner and the relative importance of the room, but an evolution may betraced in several…